In the dispute over relief for debt relief has EU Parliament President Martin Schulz, the new Greek government advised to stop attacks on Chancellor Angela Merkel. Prime Minister Tsipras Germany would still need. Meanwhile, a surprising survey results came: Most Germans want to keep Athens €
He had placed the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras “strongly to my heart. verbally disarm, “said European Parliament President Martin Schulz of” Welt am Sonntag “. “Finally, it is among other things the federal government, which he will have to help.” It may perhaps arrive at some good “bashing the Germans – but it is also short-sighted and does not help us.”
Greece is preserved since 2010 with international financial bankruptcy. In return, the country has committed to massive savings and reforms. Tsipras sees them as exaggerated. Germany plays a crucial role as an economic strongest country in the Euro Spar controversy. Therefore, the federal government stands in the perception of many Greeks not good.
German for whereabouts of Greece in the euro zone
Despite Greek reservations about Germany’s role in the rescue programs last for many Germans the crisis state loyalty: The majority of Germans, according to a survey for the whereabouts Greece in the euro zone. 62 percent of Germans are sure to keep Greece in the currency union, as is apparent from an Emnid survey commissioned by the “Bild am Sonntag”.
Only 26 percent had voted for exclusion. A majority of 68 percent but has also spoken out against a haircut. 21 percent said they would support a debt. Emnid interviewed 504 people.
Even Chancellor Merkel called for a stay of the country in the euro zone after Greece’s termination of cooperation with the troika of the EU, ECB and IMF. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned of a debate on a haircut called for within the new Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.
“We need time to breathe”
Meanwhile, the new Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras after his spectacular termination of cooperation with the creditor Troika conciliatory tone struck. No one wants war, and it was never the intention of his government was “to respond to one side of the Greek debt”, the Politicians assured on Saturday in a statement. This Tsipras asked at the same time for more time for his reform program.
He feels the mandate of the Greek population obliged to replace the current austerity by a growth policy, said Tsipras. This was, however, “no way means that we meet our commitments to the European Central Bank or the International Monetary Fund fail to comply.” Rather, it means “that we need time to breathe, to our own medium-term program of recovery,” drawn up by the Economy and Finance. These included radical measures against tax evasion, corruption, clientelism and a balanced budget.
Tsipras said he is confident of being able to persuade other European governments for its anti-austerity policies.
In Video: Here Greece granted the Troika rebuffed
No visit to Berlin scheduled
Similarly, already Finance Minister Yannis Varoufakis had expressed , After the troika of the IMF, ECB and EU Commission rejected on Friday with sharp words the door, he told the BBC, “everything we ask of our partners, some weeks time to develop meaningful and reasonable proposals” .
The newspaper “Agora” he said on Saturday, Greece needs a financial respite. His government will continue to short-term bonds, known as T-bills, spend, although agreed with the lender Troika ceiling of 15 billion euros has already been reached. Foreign investors he made more transparent legal framework in view. Varoufakis and Tsipras travel in the coming days to France, Cyprus, Italy, to promote their policies. A stop in Berlin is not provided
Schulz. “Irresponsible”
by EP President Schulz showed meanwhile alarmed by Varoufakis’ announcement, no longer work with the Troika and to end the ongoing until the end of February utility prematurely. “If the Greek government really does not want to cooperate with donors on the existing basis, then I think that is irresponsible,” Schulz said the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”. New forms of cooperation to be negotiated, “that is only possible in the way of consensus and not the provocation.”
The unilateral announcements of the Greek finance minister did not fit into the picture that he last Thursday at his I made conversation with Tsipras about the Greek government, the SPD politician said. He added: “Maybe Alexis Tsipras again brings order into his government”
Commissioner Günter Oettinger (CDU) accused the Greek government a “naughty and cheeky appearance” before.. “Athens has its obligations to Europe meet. It can not be that a government of Brussels is treated better because it occurs cheeky and rude. We must Athens is now just punish not, but it does not expect any improvement,” he said at the beginning of the year exam of the CDU in Hesse Künzell.
“This is a Dirty Exit”
The snub of EU institutions is “a hitherto unique occurrence in the history of the EU “. Who limit stops such a tone and a new enemy aufbaue as the government of Alexis Tsipras, the stoking hatred and despair, Oettinger said. It is noteworthy that Tsipras send friendly signals to Russia and at the same time “hateful tones to Berlin and Brussels”
The budgetary spokesman for the Union faction in the Bundestag Norbert Barthle (CDU) wants no further cooperation. “If the Greeks not claim the final installment of our aid package and do not fulfill their obligations, is that, Dirty Exit ‘, a flagrant violation of the agreements. I then see no basis for a follow-up program, “Barthle
told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAS) in the video. Greeks:” We want our dignity back “
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